Jennifer Reisberg, MA, LMHC

Background

Psychology and psychotherapy have been my life’s work for the past 15 years. Born in Ohio, I spent my college years in Pittsburgh before moving to Philadelphia, where I eventually became the clinical team leader of an inpatient drug & alcohol treatment center. I moved from the East Coast to Seattle in 2013 to pursue graduate training in psychotherapy and earned a master's degree in existential-phenomenological psychology from Seattle University, where I now occasionally teach undergraduate psychology courses. Before co-founding Inside Out Therapy Alliance in 2016, I spent a couple of years working as a therapist in community mental health, where I saw adults and teenagers in individual psychotherapy. I specialized in working with teens, eventually using a model I created alongside the co-founder of Inside Out.

Throughout my clinical experience, I began to develop a second specialty: working with people who are interested in exploring gender and/or sexuality. At the end of 2020, I began to build and launch a new practice, Illuminate Seattle Psychotherapy, where I can explore both of these specialities in all of their fullness.

In addition to practicing therapy and teaching, I am also a qualitative researcher. I’m involved with projects that seek to offer a better understanding of different parts of the human experience, which, as you may imagine, can cover quite a wide range of topics. My most recent publication explored executives’ experiences of envy in the workplace. I have also authored papers on gender expression in subcultures, and am in the process of co-authoring a series of articles exploring trauma and our ways of working through it. In fall 2020, I began developing a comprehensive narrative therapy method, which I plan to write about in 2021.

Actually practicing psychotherapy, though, has always been my primary focus and passion. I particularly enjoy working with people as they are finding their way, whether as teenagers in middle/high school, or people later along in life who have found themselves unfulfilled, unhappy, or otherwise seeking a new way of being. I work well with people who are willing to explore themselves fully and try out new possibilities.